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The Emergence of China: Opportunities and Challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean Title: El impacto de China: Oportunidades y retos para América Latina y el Caribe

Rodríguez-Clare, Andrés; Devlin, Robert; … - Inter-American Development Bank

China's size, rapid growth, external openness, and trade performance have led to varying perceptions among the countries of Latin America: Is China a potential new market, a potent new competitor, or both? This book assesses the near-term strategic implications of China's economic performance...

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Foreign Direct Investment: Good Cholesterol?

Hausmann, Ricardo; Fernández-Arias, Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

This paper studies the proposition that capital inflows tend to take the form of FDI -i.e., the share of FDI in total liabilities tends to be higher- in countries that are safer, more promising and with better institutions and policies. It finds that this view is patently wrong since it stands...

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Towards an Evaluation of Regional Integration in Latin America in the 1990s

Devlin, Robert; French-Davis, Ricardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998

The decade of the 1990s has witnessed a wave of regional integration initiatives in Latin America: more than 14 agreements -free trade areas or customs unions- since 1990 with a handful more in varying degrees of negotiation (see Table 1). However, this was not just a Latin American phenomenon,...

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Is FDI a Safer Form of Financing?

Fernández-Arias, Eduardo; Hausmann, Ricardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

It has been common to attribute financial crises to short-term capital inflows, while foreign direct investment (FDI …

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Foreign Direct Investment in East Asia and Latin America: Is there a People's Republic of China Effect?

Chantasasawat, Busakorn; Fung, Kwok Chiu; Iizaka, Hitomi; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004

In recent years, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has emerged as the largest recipient of foreign direct investment … well as Latin America, and control for the standard determinants of their inward direct investment. They then add PRC …'s inward foreign direct investment as an indicator of the "PRC Effect". Estimation of the coefficient associated with the PRC …

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Regional Integration and the Location of FDI

Yeyati, Eduardo Levy; Stein, Ernesto H.; Daude, Christian - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

empirical exercises that follow. First, a brief stylized description of two different approaches to foreign investment that have …

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China's and India's Challenge to Latin America: Opportunity or Threat?

Calderón, César; Casacuberta, Carlos; Castro, Lucio; … - Inter-American Development Bank

The economic successes of China and India are viewed with admiration but also with concern because of the effects that the growth of these Asian economies may have on the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region. The evidence in 'China's and India's Challenge to Latin America' indicates that...

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